Recording in progress.

Dustin, are you able to hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay, just checking my earbuds connected correctly.

Thank you.

I'll go back on the screen.

Madam Chair, we're good to go whenever you're ready.

All right, everyone.

It is now 515, and I'll like to welcome you all to the Sandy City Council meeting this evening, September 30th.

We will begin our meeting with a prayer and a pledge.

Is there anybody that would like to volunteer to give the prayer today?

Thank you.

Our Father in Heaven, we come before thee this uh evening.

We're thankful for uh the many blessings that we enjoy in this community.

We're thankful for um the residents who live here and for um the effort they make to make this a wonderful community.

We're grateful for these elected officials and we pray for them that they will make good decisions for the residents who live here.

We pray Father that that would um please bless us as we go uh through these items tonight that uh they will be will be done, and we say this in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

And if you'll all stand and we can recite the pledge together.

I pledge allegiance to the law of the United States of America and to the Republic for which one nation of the business with liberty and just girls.

Thank you, everyone, and thank you, Mr.

Pace, for giving the prayer.

Uh we'll go ahead now and move into introductions, um, starting with you, Mr.

Fratto.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

My name is Dustin Fratto.

I'm with the City Council Office.

There are a couple other council staff members in the back of the room as well.

Uh Justin Swanson and Liz Terriel.

My name's Tracy, I'm counsel for the council.

Chris Edwards with the council office.

Zach Robinson, District Three.

Ryan Meekham, District 1.

Brooke D'Asouza at large.

Alison Stroud, District 2.

Aaron DeKaiser at large.

Cindy Sharkey at large.

And Marcy Housman, District 4.

I'm Shane Pace, City Administrator Mayor Zoltanski is here, and so is Lynn Pace, uh, our city attorney.

I think they're just both finishing dinner.

Okay, perfect.

Uh I just wanted to quickly address our general citizen comment period.

Our policy is that we won't take general citizen comment until um after 6 p.m.

And so as soon as there is an appropriate break in the agenda, we'll go ahead and come back to uh general citizen comment.

If you are here in the room and would like to make a comment, there are blue cards in the back on the table that you can fill out and then you can bring up to Mr.

Fratto here or even Mr.

Smartson in the back.

Um and comment will be taken in the order in which they come in uh and online commenters at that time.

You will be able to raise your virtual hand and you will be called on in the order that you have raised it.

All right, so moving on.

We are now at our item number one, which is an information item, and we have visit Salt Lake updating the council regarding the convention and tourism assessment area.

And uh so we have individuals related to Visit Salt Lake here tonight, and we have Martin Jensen introducing those presenters.

Thank you, Chair.

Appreciate it.

Um we're uh excited to hear from our our friends and colleagues with uh visit Salt Lake and some of our hotel years.

Uh they're gonna talk to us about the convention tourism assessment area and provide an update.

So we have Clay Partaine, the chief uh sports officer from Visit Salt Lake, Krista Perry, the brand and experience officer from Visit Salt Lake, and Braden O'Brien from Visit Salt Lake.

And then I will let them introduce the CTA board members that are Sandy hoteliers.

And we'll turn it over to Clay and Krista.

Yes.

Well, thank you guys so much.

It's such a pleasure to be here.

We love Sandy City, and uh it's it's a privilege to be able to come and talk to you guys tonight about the convention tourism uh and assessment area.

So we just wanted to provide an update for you guys.

Um this was so as we think about Sandy City and how important you guys are to the visitor economy.

Sandy City has uh eight hotels, and I and I I guess does somebody control this oh the slides Dustin sorry, right when you asked the question.

Uh there's a remote that is right there in front of the switch through it.

But let me, it looks a little blurry for some reason.

Oh, there we go.

There we go.

There we go.

Okay, we just had to focus it in.

So just to give you guys a little bit of let's see, we're gonna learn how to do this.

Let's see.

Maybe it's a little forward.

Oh, we had this problem last week as well.

We had to switch the battery, of course.

Well, it looks like it's blinking.

Let's see.

Here, let me grab it from you, and then if worst case scenario, we can have my staff just go through the slides for you.

Okay, no worries.

So, as we think about uh, you know, Sandy City as the visitor economy.

So Sandy has eight hotels, which represents a little over a thousand hotel rooms.

Um on average, 70% of those rooms are occupied at a rate of 120 dollars a night.

Uh last year, Sandy Hotels generated approximately 25 million in room revenue.

There we go.

Okay, and visitors are responsible for approximately 27% of all spending in Sandy, that's across food and beverage, retail entertainment, um, and 79% of spending is at local businesses here in Sandy.

When we think about CTAA, so CTAA, which is a convention tourism assessment area.

So this was something that was a hotel-led initiative.

Uh this was approved by Sandy City Council.

Uh it was actually in October.

So we started this in October of 2023.

Um, so many of you guys, we came and presented before you when we were talking about this.

And this was really the hotel said uh let's put a two percent assessment on hotel room revenue, um, and then we reinvest that into development and opportunity within Sandy City.

Um, there are three districts across uh Salt Lake County, so there are three uh CTA districts.

Sandy is a part of the South District, which includes Sandy and Draper.

Um, and really the goal of this is to increase awareness and demand for room nights at participating hotels.

So you're gonna see many of these.

Uh we have some of the South Committee members who will be uh sharing some things with you tonight.

Jennifer George, who's the general manager of residence in Bimaria uh in Sandy, Mary Birch, who's the director of sales at uh the Hyatt House here in Sandy, and Christopher King, who's a gender manager of the Court Air by Marriott in Sandy.

Um Mayor Zoltanski sits on sits on the committee as an exficio member.

We also have Jay Francis, who's a dear friend and has been an instrumental in helping to support uh South Valley and Sandy and everything that we do here, and then also Fred Lowry, who's with Draper City, uh sits on that committee as well.

I think the the two key things that we always think about with the CTA is that it's for hotels by hotels, and it has to have equitable benefit for all of the participant participating hotels who are part of uh the CTA district.

So, how are CTA funds invested?

So in 2024, there was a budget budget of 7.8 million.

Um 2025 that budget was 8.3 million.

So there are there are as I as I mentioned, we have uh a few different buckets of where things go.

So we have a district-wide development and programming bucket, which is 50 percent of that.

That is uh overseen by the executive committee, of which uh the three uh committee members here per South District sit on that committee, and that goal is to help to elevate the awareness that's brand building awareness for Sandy and the representing areas.

Uh the community and cells, which is the regional uh bucket, so that is what the South District Committee that I just uh told you about.

So that really is looking at what are the incentives that we can offer here in the South District.

Um, that's where that bucket goes to.

And then we have a major event impact fund, and then we also have an administrative fund.

Um, part of this, so part of the CTAA is that uh the county Salt Lake County uh collects collects that and then they they give it out to us as as part of the ways to distribute it through the hotels.

So as we look at elevating our uh profile.

So this is really as we look at Salt Lake City.

Many of you guys may remember the nutcracker that was here.

Um I loved what the city council members did with that.

That nutcracker, hopefully, is coming back this year here at Sandy City, but we love to be able to see uh, you know, there were gap sweatshirts on every day.

It had something new.

We loved uh watching all the pictures come through Sandy City of what your nutcracker was looking like.

Um that was really showing like what are all the holiday opportunities that we have here.

Uh we had uh marketing campaigns as well as international marketing.

We do a lot with bringing travel trade and international uh visitors here to Sandy City.

So as we think about the South District, this is that 30% bucket.

This is the the bucket that's uh that that we look at.

What are those investments that we can make here in in Sandy City in the South District?

Um so we we uh went and approached, so we were able to confirm 22 events.

Clay Partain is gonna talk about many of those events uh that came here.

Luckily, here in Sandy, we have the Mountain America Exo Center, and then we also have the America's First, uh I believe that's America's first field, and we program a lot of events there.

Um, of those 22 events, so those were expected to bring 243 uh thousand attendees, 169,000 room nights, um, and contributing an estimated 107 million dollars in economic impact.

The greatest news about this, and this is what we like to see is we like to see how are as we think about the two things it has to be four hotels by the hotels, and it has to have equitable benefit.

As we look at how the CTAA hotels are performing, um, you can see the bold.

So that's uh the South Valley, that's this district that we were just talking about.

But as you look at how uh the CTA hotels are performing here in the South District compared to other markets that we track, uh it is performing extremely well.

When we look at the occupancy rate, it's actually one of the strongest occupancy rates that we see uh across all the comp cities, much like you know, Denver, Austin.

Um, and and the the greatest thing that we like to see is this uh RevPAR, which is the revenue per available room.

Um that's looking at you know the average daily rate.

How are we helping to increase that?

Because that includes includes more taxes to the city, that includes um investments that we can then make here in the community, and uh the South Valley district is at 1.3% as we look at year over year change.

And this is a this is uh so we we not only invest in events, we also invest in marketing.

Obviously, Sandy is the uh base camp to the beautiful mountains that we all love to enjoy.

Uh and so we did this campaign.

It was uh OTA, which stands for online uh tour tour uh trap.

Thank you.

What thank you guys all my hotel years are helping me.

Uh so as we looked at, we did a campaign with Expedia, um, and we looked and said, okay, what can we do that really drives the end of season skiing?

So we ran this in uh February and March of 2025.

We saw a big return on this.

So when we looked at when we looked at that, that that drove close to 5,000 room nights, delivered a seven to one return on ad spend, um, and we saw a lot of people who are coming here to experience some booking uh room nights here in Sandy.

It was only showcasing so on on the O on Expedia, it was only showing those hotels that were participating in the CTAA.

So it's representing all the hotels that are here in Sandy.

And then Clay's gonna talk about a few of the incredible sports events that we posted here.

Okay, yeah.

So really one of the most exciting ways we can use this is to leverage to bring in these national level events into your community.

Um and this is a great this is a great event for you to for you to look at.

We would have never landed this event without uh the CTAA.

So USA Gymnastics, they run they run all sorts of championships events around the country.

This in particular, the development program is the largest by the numbers gymnastics event you can host.

Um it's not gonna be on the ESPN, but there's gonna be a whole lot of kids there that travel with their families.

Um so it produced what we estimated about 6,500 hotel room nights.

Um it had 7.1 million total economic impact of the area.

These kids and their families were all of course all over Mountain America Expo, but they were all over uh the Southtown shopping centers, they were they were in all the hotels, they were in all the restaurants in the area.

So this was a big win.

Um RSL even got in on the piece of the action.

They actually hosted the opening ceremony uh celebration over at just right across from Mountain from Mountain America Expo over at America First Field.

So it was a big win.

And then uh just to hit a couple of others, triple crown volleyball, they've been coming for uh a few years now.

Um great group.

Uh again, um, these these youth travel in with their families and parents.

Uh they have their competitions.

We we we we take a lot of advantage of this huge amount of indoor space over here at Mountain America Expo.

And you think, oh, can you know, RV show, all that stuff, it's a great place for indoor sports.

You can put mats out, you can book courts out.

Uh so we host a lot of things over there, and that was another big win.

Uh again, 3.98 million.

Uh the National Horseshoe Pictures Association uh world championship was at Mountain America July 21st to August 3rd.

Um we've got our very own mayor throwing out the uh the first shoe.

So, yep, uh Mayor Zeltanski got right in on the action.

She now has she's I think they they call and text you uh all the time now.

So uh but that was a wonderful event, uh about 7.8 million uh impact there.

And then from here, I think.

Yeah, and so what we'd like to do is we'd like to introduce so Jennifer George and Mary Birch, they are the chairs of the CTAA South District Committee.

Uh they also sit on the executive committee meeting for CTA, so we'd like to bring them up for a few uh words, and then we can open it up for any questions.

Thank you, Madam Chair and Mayor and City Council.

Thank you for having us.

And really, thank you for your support of the CTAA.

It's amazing what it's done just in the short period of time, and I look forward to increasing our events here in the city in the future.

Um, one of the most valuable uh aspects of the CTAA is the collaboration that we have within the hotel community.

Um we meet monthly as a district and collaborate over the events that we have, the opportunities we share insights, and then look for ways to drive more business to our community.

Um through the CTAA, we've been able to align our goals and um that supports Andy as a destination, and it's not just for people here uh coming for leisure, it's for sports and events and any kind of group that we can get that is family-oriented, sports-oriented, anything that Sandy's the perfect place to host those events.

Um this collaboration attracts more visitors to our community, it helps fill our restaurants, our entertainment venues, and us and our hotels.

And the great thing about it, it is for hotels by hotels for hotels, and that it benefits all the businesses who are paying for it and strengthening Sandy City's economic development.

And um, the funds come directly from our properties, and we decide as a group how we're going to invest the money back into our community.

Um, from a business standpoint, the CTA has really been a game changer for all of us.

Uh, the marketing and group business it's generated speaks directly to more heads and beds.

Uh we've seen higher occupancy during times that used to be much slower, which is not only meaningful for that revenue, but also job security for all of our employees.

Um our businesses are thriving because of the demand that's driven from the CTAA.

You feel that ripple effect, which I know Jennifer touched on, but really big emphasis on that effect through our local businesses, our restaurants, um, attractions, things like that.

Um, and as a hotel year, I feel confident that these dollars we're contributing are going exactly where they've been promised.

So thank you.

And we'll turn the time over to Clay for any questions you might have.

Thanks for your time.

Okay, are there any questions?

Council, are there any questions?

Councilmember Meekham.

Uh, what's of the future?

So we we've seen some great things in the past.

What's uh what's on the near horizon?

Well, we actually have a lot of great things on the horizon.

Maybe you can talk a little bit about the Salt Palace uh convention center going out of construction and opportunities here at Mount America.

We do so we have a unique opportunity with the Salt Palace undergoing some major construction over the next few years.

There's a lot of events, conventions, but also sporting events that happen inside the Salt Palace.

Um a number of those I think we're gonna be able to uh to leverage to try to get over to Mountain America Expo Center.

Um, but we're also we're also uh looking at all the other venues in the area that fall within this district.

You know, America First Field is a phenomenal venue.

Uh we helped with the Pacific Nations Cup that just went through there.

Um, so we need to we need to try to maximize opportunities that we get there as well.

So uh it's really working with all the partners, trying to figure out where the best opportunities lie and what really works best for all of us, including a hotel years when it comes to the visitor impact.

And hockey.

And hockey, we have the new facility.

I should have mentioned that.

We've got a new facility.

I'll be over there uh next Tuesday, I think, for uh the private tour part of it.

So very excited about that.

There's a number of hockey tournaments we can likely leverage to come into the area.

The business is there, the the opportunities are there.

I mean, um, it's getting the ice time, and we so we desperately need that uh those ice rinks to open our greater community here, is in desperate need for more ice.

Uh yeah, the the horseshoe thing was genius.

I had no idea about the horseshoe, but now I'm in the know.

And I figure if the you know if the horseshoes has an association, there's got to be a lot of opportunity out there.

So great job.

Thank you.

Councilmember Sharky.

Thank you for that presentation.

I was gonna ask a question about the salt palace retracting in size considerably, right?

So the question asked about um what happens with the salt, obviously, February of 2027 is when the salt palace is gonna go under demolition.

Um your forecast about um how that will impact us is you're talking about maybe more sports, but is there an opportunity for even more outside of sports when the salt palace closes and how much can we flex?

Um your forecast about um how that will impact us is you're talking about maybe more sports, but is there an opportunity for even more outside of sports when the Salt Palace closes and how much can we flex and how much can we take on that's out of the norm, and what do we need to do to be accommodating to that?

It's a question I'm always asking at the convention facilities advisory board meetings with Caitlin, but um there's always so much focus on the Salt Palace.

I want to focus on Mountain America and how much we can take on and how much we can change and grow and become something different than the expo and the sports center.

Absolutely, and I think that there's been a lot of conversations, that's a great question, and there's been a lot of conversations as to how do we we've been uh getting really creative uh as to what are the different ways that we utilize all the uh facilities, you know, Mount America Expo Center as well as Salt Palace Convention Center here in uh Salt Lake County, and I think that there's opportunity.

I know that you know we're looking as as okay, one of those things that we would need to uh create addition, you know, as you think about ballroom, etc.

When you think about convention space, I think that those are all opportunities of things that we can look at to ensure that we get that convention business as well as the sport business and all of those great things that our community can hold.

I think one of the greatest points for for Salt Lake, um, you know, I always say we we actually are low-hanging fruit.

You know, when you look at at um people who are choosing where they're going to host their meetings, you know, Sandy, as you look at right.

If we were all to be looking right now up at the mountains, we'd see this incredible view of you know that the rain just fell, and so we have this beautiful blue blue sky out there, and that's what what Sandy offers.

And I think that that's our job is to ensure increase that destination awareness so that way whether it's a meeting planner, whether it's a sport plan or whatever that they choose and say I can bring my event to uh Mountain America Expo Center.

Um, and so I think that's part of what we're working on.

Are we already since Visit Salt Lake Books um events at both Salt Palace and Expo?

Are we already booking uh events at into 2027 in consideration of the fact that the Salt Palace won't be able to host them there, so we'll host them here.

Excellent.

Yes, we actually are, and and in what's what's interesting is when you think about the booking patterns, you know, and we think about um how things book out.

So when you look at kind of big conventions, they're typically booking out on on a five, you know, five-year window, they're looking out at uh 2030, 2031.

And that's why I think so.

We're looking to say, okay, what are those, what are those events that we currently have uh booked and exploring all these opportunities of hey, maybe there's ways that we can bring some of these events that are here, bring them down to uh Mount Mountain America Echo Center.

And in fact, one of these incredible events is is volleyball, and you can talk to that.

Yeah, case point we we've got a massive USA volleyball event that happens at the Salt Palace every year.

Um, and through the construction window, uh they're gonna lose about half the space.

Well, they need about a place to put about 30 courts, which is equal to about what Mountain America Expo is in size to pull off that, we're gonna have to we're gonna have to lean on some CTA dollars and some other assets uh uh some other ways to uh kind of incentivize that to be able to happen down at Mountain America because uh there's a lot of extra costs and money that'll come back to USA volleyball uh for using the Mountain America venue that they wouldn't uh have otherwise incurred at the Salt Palace because of being only under one venue, having to go to two venues is gonna create twice the work, twice the staff, twice everything.

So there's ways to overcome that uh financially, but that's a that's one of the groups that I think is gonna be a phenomenal impact on this end of the year.

When we think about USA volleyball, so if you were to talk to, so we have that you know, there's a big center, much like the Southtown uh you know, center that's here.

So City Creek Center, USA volleyball, when when those uh girls and their families are all in town, it's actually the second highest weekend ever, right after Black Friday uh for the shopping center.

Because when you think about you know, all these families, all these kids coming in, they have one game, right?

What do they do between those those games?

They go and they explore.

And so thinking about ways that we can bring that here, and as we think about you know what's happening at at the South Down or at the South Town Mall, there's there's a lot of opportunity there, and so it's incredible to think.

You would never think that a sporting group like USA volleyball would create that much economic impact, you know, when when City Creek was telling me this, like what it's actually the second biggest driver uh for your shopping center all year round behind Black Friday.

So those are the opportunities that that they can create.

Thank you, Councilmember Houseman.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I I don't really have questions.

I appreciate the questions that have been asked.

Um really helpful.

It's an it's definitely exciting time in in the history, I guess, of our partnership.

So mostly I just wanted to thank you.

Thank you for coming and providing this update.

Hard numbers are always helpful, and I just want to express my appreciation for the partnership.

It's it's fantastic, it's clearly having economic impact.

Um and it's it's intentional, and it's it's it's great work uh that you were doing to kind of be a connector of sorts, and especially as we continue to uh envision what the future of of the Cairns district looks like and truly turning it into a sports and entertainment hub, um, something that we are known for.

This just plays perfectly well into that.

I know I've said it before, but I will just kind of keep saying it.

Um I love everything about visit Salt Lake.

I'm especially leaning into the things you've highlighted tonight, which is sports tourism.

Um, that was what I was going to ask, but you I feel like you elaborated beautifully on that.

So thank you for that.

Um I think as sports tourism grows, especially this in between time where we can fill a gap.

I think that's gonna help us help our community uh uh more fully understand the value of potential impact with with sports tourism.

Um, and I know you've mentioned a lot of different examples, but I'm gonna put another plug-in that I have put in a few other times because you know, based on feedback from our community, there is significant interest in skate parks and potentially hosting um you know a really impactful skate park event, and I think that is really interesting to think about how it dovetails potentially with um like on ice.

You you've been talking about on ice time, and I can't wait to see that and see that come alive, but then also like this idea of office skate park type um things, and so you don't have to answer it tonight.

I know you're already thinking about programming at Mountain American Expo.

I'm thinking about programming and parking lot space.

Um, is that the right you know thing to be thinking about in terms of hosting uh some type of skate skate park regional tournament, etc.

So just planting that seed, but again, thank you.

You know, thank you for all you're doing, thank you for the partnership.

We've seen great momentum thus far, and I just I know it's gonna continue.

Thank you, Councilmember Houseman.

Uh I thank you very much for coming tonight and giving this presentation.

You know, I I remember the conversation when we were discussing creating this additional area, and it the you know, first couple of year reports are really promising, and I look forward to increasing that revenue per room rate, you know, even more.

So very very good, very exciting.

Um, I did have a question, and and I realize that it's probably like super technical, and the answer could be in the weeds.

I'm kind of just looking for uh anyway.

What is the formula or considerations that project that economic impact?

We actually, yeah, so so we we utilize uh the economic impact calculator.

So this is a DI, so as we as we look at we have two different metrics that we look at.

So two is is we we use a uh um scorecard uh that is an industry standard that many other organizations as far as DMOs across the country use.

So so that's one of the reasons.

We also look at Zarticos as Artico is credit card data, Zartico's uh platform that we look at, and and we have our districts uh it in their own set, so we can look and see what the economic impact is in South District, for example.

Um, and so what that does is it pulls the credit card data uh that is being spent here, it it puts it, and that's where that number of the you know of the uh 27% of all spending um that comes from that data.

So it helps to see okay, where where's the spending come from?

How far outside of you know, it's it's Zardica uses a 50-mile uh range, is what they consider a visitor, but then we also look at um the economic impact calculator, which again is EIC, it's through Destinations International, which is an organization that uh nationally people use, and that's what we use to help um so we use in-person data, right?

Like real data, what's here on the ground, and then we also use a calculator.

And that and that helps us.

So if we're looking at an event that's in uh Louisville, and we want to know how that's gonna be here.

Well, we're using the same calculator that all the major markets use.

Uh, this is the most recognized tourism calculator.

Um, so what Louisville's projecting, we know that we're gonna see something similar to that if we bring if we can get the same numbers.

So it's kind of the apples to apples comparison too that it gives us, along with having that third-party uh industry standard sort of metric that we're using.

Okay, that's really helpful.

Thank you.

I have one more follow-up on that.

So I I was noticing the other CTAA supported events being the Triple Crown volleyball and the horseshoe tournament, and from a projected attendee standpoint, the horseshoe tournament was had a projection of 4200, where volleyball was 8200, but the economic impact was you know quite different where the what do you think was driving?

So the calculator gives us those numbers.

It takes uh a lot of things into account.

A lot uh important, most importantly, I would say is probably the length of the tournament itself.

Uh so it takes several things into account.

Um so you can have you can have slightly different looking uh estimates depending on length and tournament and that sort of thing.

Okay, and we can provide you if you if you if it would be helpful, uh we would be happy.

Absolutely.

Yeah, and I think that's a great question.

We can provide you kind of what those calculators look like, and it shows um it it may be a good example for you to see.

So we would be happy to follow up with that.

Okay, well, thank you very much.

Are there any other questions from the council?

Okay, well, thank you so much.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

That finishes agenda item number one and moves us into item number two, which is a public hearing.

It is the Fortner annexation.

Uh we did let's see.

Yes, we did hear this.

It's a public meeting, and I've got or a hearing, and I've got Brian McHuston presenting on this.

So I'll go ahead and turn the time over to you.

All right, thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

Uh Liz is gonna bring this up.

Is it not a question?

Is Ben Child in the All right?

Okay.

I talked with Ben on the phone and through email, but never met him in person.

So uh he is representing the property owner, Jolene Fortner, and they are requesting to annex uh the area that we've got highlighted on the map.

So we're proposing to annex three different parcels, two of them have the same address, and of that of those two parcels, one has a single family home and the other one is vacant, and then we have an existing duplex on the corner, and this is a 8600 south and 10th east.

It's a little over one acre in size.

Um the existing zoning in the county for all three properties is A1, and we've typically brought those in as an R110 zone because it does require 10,000 square feet per single family dwelling.

Um staff is recommending that we zone 8564, both properties to the R110 zone, and then R210 for the property on the corner.

And the reason being is because that's already an existing duplex, it's not legal non-conforming in the county, so we want to make it conforming as it comes into Sandy City.

The properties on the west side of that property and on the east are both at R210 zone, so it's not gonna stick out like a pimple.

So uh the planning commission did review this on September 18th, and they are forwarding a positive recommendation for the zoning and the annexation.

And Ben is here representing the property owner if you have any questions.

Council, are there any questions?

Okay, well, seeing that there are no questions.

Oh wait, sorry, sorry, Council Member Houseman.

Yes, no problem.

I know it's always tricky when I'm I don't really have um a question.

I just I can't let the the the um pimple thing.

I I've never heard in all of our meetings of about alignment.

I've never heard um so it won't stand out like a pimple.

So I appreciate that.

Like it it's always nice to have a bit of a point of reference of as we're making these decisions.

We want to think about continuity and and transition from one to you know, anyway.

I just thought it was funny.

I had to comment on it.

Um, and if I heard it correctly, I should have clarified.

Did I hear it correctly?

I did, sorry.

No, no, it it makes it very clear that we're trying to you know really think uh carefully about transitions and and uh continuity.

So I just that's all that's all I have, Madam Chair.

Well, thank you, Council Member Housman.

Uh being that this is a public hearing, we'll go ahead and open the public comment period for this hearing.

If there's anybody in chambers that would like to make a comment, I don't presently have any blue cards.

Uh I don't see anybody jumping up, so in the meantime, we can go to online.

Of course, thanks, madam chair.

Uh, if you're joining us virtually via Zoom and you'd like to uh comment on tonight's public hearing item number two.

Go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen.

I'll call your name in the order in which you raised your hand, and you'll have three minutes.

I don't see any hands raised, madam chair.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Fraddo.

And I don't have any blue cards still, so I'll go ahead and close the public hearing and bring it back to the council for consideration of a motion.

Madam Chair, I'll make a motion that we adopt ordinance 25-24 annexing parcels of a contiguous unincorporated area totaling 1.07 acres, homes located at 8564 south 1000 east and 8590 south 1000 east.

Second, thank you.

I have a first and a second.

Is there any uh consideration discussion on the motion?

All right, then we'll go ahead and go to you, Miss Edwards, for a roll call vote.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Ms.

Sharky, yes, Mr.

Meekcom?

Yes.

Ms.

DeSusa.

Yes.

Mr.

DeKaiser.

Yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yes.

Ms.

Houseman.

Yes.

Madam Chair.

That motion carried seven to zero.

Thank you, Ms.

Edwards.

And that concludes agenda item number two.

It brings us into our consent calendar calendar, which encompasses items three, four, five, and six.

Let's see.

The first couple of items are approval of the September 2nd and September 9th draft meeting minutes.

In addition to the one kind act today joint resolution and an amendment to the 2025 City Council annual meeting schedule.

Madam Chair, I move we adopt tonight's consent calendar.

Second.

Great, thank you.

We have a motion and a second.

Any conversation?

All right.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

That motion passes.

And we are at council voting item item number seven, which is the amendments to Title 21 of the land development code related to brew pubs.

Melissa Anderson will be going over this again.

It was previously presented.

I do last time we combined the two.

This time I'm going to keep them separate, just so that you know.

Okay.

All right, go ahead, Melissa.

Um yes, well, I'm just here to answer um any questions.

We have uh item seven and eight on the agenda, but we'll need uh two separate uh motions because we have two separate ordinances, one amending Title 21, the land development code, and following this, we have uh Brian McQuistian here to answer any questions about changes to Title 15 related to business licensing.

Both of these relate to allowing brew hubs in other commercial type areas around the city, and um so we went in detail on that uh two weeks ago at the work session and in the packet that was included then and and that for this week was also detailed outlining all of those changes.

So otherwise, if you have any questions, I'm happy to uh do my best to answer them, but uh you know, otherwise, I think we've gone over a lot of the details already.

All right, thank you.

And just a quick question for Dustin.

I know that we have to do two separate motions on this.

Am I okay to still like maybe combine the because it's a voting item and it's our council policy to take comment to combine that into one?

Yeah, I believe so.

I think you can just open the comment period for both items seven and eight concurrently.

Okay, um, council, are there any questions for Melissa on this item or even the following one?

Okay, all right.

Thank you, Melissa.

I'll go ahead and take the public comment.

If there is anybody in the room that would like to make comment, I again don't have presently have any blue cards.

Go ahead and fill one out and bring that up.

Um in the meantime, we can go ahead and address our online audience.

Thank you, madam chair.

Uh, again, if you're joining us virtually via Zoom and you'd like to comment this evening on either items number seven or number eight on tonight's agenda.

Go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now.

I'll call your name in the order in which you raised your hand, and you'll have three minutes no hands are raised, madam chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Fratto.

All right, I will go ahead then and close the public comments for this item and bring it back to the council.

Is there a motion?

Mr.

Robinson?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I move that we on speaking to number seven specifically.

Uh I move that we adopt resolution, excuse me, ordinance 25-22 as titled in tonight's packet.

Second, all right.

We have motion and a second.

Is there any discussion on that motion?

Councilmember Robinson.

Thank you, Madam Chair, once again.

And and council, thank you for uh allowing this opportunity to play out through our system.

We've had a lot of really great conversation around this.

I think there's been some really great staff uh input on this.

Um and I know we don't all agree on it.

I and and I get that.

Um, but I I do want to call out that the process that was followed.

I was was very happy with and um I I do feel like it um it did allow for some really healthy discussion on this item.

So I just wanted to to to call attention to that.

Um and and you know, I do plan to support the motion tonight.

Obviously, I'm the one that brought it forward for consideration.

So this is something that that I I would like to see happen.

I hope that we can get this passed tonight and and honestly allow uh the market to impact these instead of restrictive city code.

I hope that we can get this passed tonight and and honestly allow uh the market to impact these instead of restrictive city code that that was the direction as we set out.

I think that's where we ultimately landed, and you know, if this passes, great, and we'll go from there.

But uh I do plan to support the motion, but I did want to call attention to the healthy discussion that that uh surrounded this item.

So thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Robinson.

Ms.

Houseman uh thank you, madam chair.

Um so uh I I don't imagine my comments will be that much of a surprise to to all of you.

Um I've been pretty vocal about this from from the beginning.

Now in the middle, I I didn't feel like there was anything that I needed to to weigh in on relative to the opinions I'd shared, you know, kind of at the beginning.

So I agree.

I appreciate the process.

I appreciate um staff's efforts.

I don't want my vote uh to to minimize that effort, but as I have said from the beginning, I've had concerns about expanding, um expanding the zoning.

I do not have concerns with licensing and calibrating that and reducing barriers for business owners.

So I'm glad, madam chair, that you separated these two items because I do believe the licensing adjustments are are good for business efficiency, good for fairness, but again, zoning is something entirely different, and zoning is about our vision, and right now, in my opinion, we have a very clear vision, and I think the vision is the right vision that that brew hubs belong in the Cairns district.

That's where we are deliberately building, like we talked about earlier with visit Salt Lake.

We're we're deliberately building a sports and entertainment hum hub, and that hub will support hotels, restaurants, recreation, etc.

And I think brew pubs fit that strategy when they are concentrated there.

I'm concerned about diluting that strategy uh by expanding the zoning across the city.

Um, and I think in effect that could very much undermine what we are trying to do in terms of creating the cairns as a destination, a a place to go for sports entertainment and everything that accompanies that.

So I do think it's important, and I do think the process is explained this very well.

Um, so I'm not questioning that, but I do want to emphasize that that brew brew pubs are not simply restaurants that happen to serve alcohol, they are restaurants that manufacture alcohol on site.

Um, and so that in my opinion raises the level of impact, changes the character of where they're located, um, and and we already allow restaurants to serve alcohol all across the city.

I feel like this proposal to expand you know, zoning to basically encompass the whole city within the the guardrails that are already in place.

It it goes beyond that, and I just don't I just don't think it's necessary.

I I want to focus us back on good economic development is about quality, not quantity, focusing our efforts on helping brew pubs succeed in the cairns is a in my opinion a better stewardship than scattering them across the city, focusing our energy on building building this hub.

Um, as and so I feel like let's get it right, let's get brew pubs right in the right place before we consider any further expansion.

And so I I will be a obviously I will be a no on on this um tonight.

I want to make sure that everyone understands though my vote my no vote, I'm not voting against business, but I am voting in favor of keeping our focus where I feel it should belong, and that is the cairns, our sports and entertainment hub, our sports entertainment district.

Should should future proposals demonstrate that there's a broader community benefit after we've seen significant impact in this very targeted approach of of brew pubs being focused and supported and helping them be successful in the cairns.

I'm absolutely open to considering them again.

This is not a vote against business, it is a vote in favor of being intentional, keeping our focus um for now, focus on the cairns, establish efficacy there, um, and then revisit the discussion uh in the future once we see impact and efficacy there.

That's all I had.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Councilmember Houseman.

Is there any other uh comments regarding this?

Councilmember Meekham.

Thanks.

Uh question, I'm not sure if uh who would be best to answer this, but if I can sum up the changes here, what we're doing is we're allowing a brew pub to go in the same place that a restaurant with a liquor license can go.

That's what we're doing.

Yes, could could you Melissa sorry?

Could you state that on there?

Yes, that's correct.

That's summing up.

That's all of this in a nutshell.

That's what we're doing.

Yes, and it and consistency with state law.

Okay, great, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Meekham.

Okay, Miss Edwards.

We'll go ahead and take that roll call vote now.

We had Mr.

Robinson first, and I seconded that.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yes.

Ms.

D'Souza.

Yes.

Mr.

DeKaiser.

Yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Ms.

Houseman.

No.

Ms.

Sharkey.

Yes.

Mr.

Meekham.

Yes.

Madam Chair.

That motion carried six to one.

Thank you, Ms.

Edwards.

Mr.

Robinson, go ahead.

Madam Chair, I move that we adopt.

Now we're on item eight that we adopt item excuse.

Ordinance 25-23 as titled in tonight's packet.

Second.

I guess that's up to me.

Mr.

Robinson.

Thank you.

As Ms.

Houseman stated, I'm I'm actually glad that these were separated for separate discussion.

I think it is important.

I I really appreciate the work that we've done here because the uh in the the changes that are proposed in in this ordinance actually have a positive impact on our staff that's handling these licenses.

Um Leslie was here a couple weeks ago.

She was really great great to explain that.

And so I I really feel like this is a change in the right direction.

Um I do feel like this is uh a great way to streamline a very old practice.

I mean it's about as old as I am, and so uh with these changes, you know, hopefully that will go another 40 years or however long it's been since this has been addressed, but uh but but but I do appreciate that um the work that's gone into this part as well because I think it will have a positive impact not only on our staff, but it clarifies the process for a business owner when they do approach the city in those circumstances to have a very clear uh a clear process that aligns a lot better with state code.

So my my comments still stand.

I do appreciate the work.

I appreciate the comments and input on this specific part of this proposal, and I look forward to supporting it.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Robinson.

Are there any other um comments for discussion on this motion?

All right, then um council member, excuse me, Chris Edwards.

Will you please go ahead and take roll call vote?

Ms.

Robinson, yes.

Ms.

DeSouza, yes, Mr.

DeKaiser, yes, Ms.

Stroud, yes, Ms.

Houseman, yes.

Ms.

Sharkey, yes.

Mr.

Meekham.

Yes, Madam Chair, that motion carried seven to zero.

Thank you, Miss Edwards.

Um that finishes out agenda item number eight.

And being that we are at six o'clock, six oh two, we're gonna go ahead and jump back into our general citizen comment portion of the meeting.

I again don't have any blue cards presently for comment.

So if you are interested in making comments, they are in the back, you can fill them out.

Um we'll go ahead and go to online and come back to in room.

Of course, thank you, madam chair.

Uh, again, if you're joining us virtually this evening via Zoom and you'd like to comment uh tonight on any city business, just go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now, and I'll call your name in the order in which you raised your hand, and you'll have three minutes no raised hands, madam chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Frado.

And again, there are no um commenters in room at this point, so we're gonna go ahead and close the general citizen comment period.

And before we move on to agenda item number eight, we're going to uh do our standing reports, and so I'll go ahead and start with Mr.

Fratto.

Of course, thank you, madam chair.

Uh, I'll be really quick this evening.

Uh just to note that the uh Utah League of Cities and Towns conference begins tomorrow.

I know a couple of you are going.

Um I'll be at that as well.

Uh but I the rest of our staff will be here in the office uh the next couple of days.

Um on the agenda planning calendar uh after tonight uh next week's meeting is canceled, so there will be no meeting on the seventh.

Uh we'll get that changed online.

The uh 14th is scheduled for our fourth housing workshop, and then we also have uh a closed session scheduled that evening that will hold immediately after the housing workshop.

Uh the 21st is scheduled for a tour of Metro Water.

Um we're actually gonna be having dinner there, courtesy of Metro Water, so thank you to them.

Um and I I won't go any further than that.

Uh that that's it for me, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Fraddo, Mr.

Robinson.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um I I just want to acknowledge uh some of the work that's gone on recently by our administrative colleagues.

Um last week at uh the Sandy Ambassadors meeting, it was set up.

Uh I'm the current council liaison to that.

Myself, Mr.

Frado attended the meeting, and it was a QA session on Alta Canyon, and it was a fantastic conversation.

A lot of the members of the Sandy Ambassadors frequent our council meetings.

Um it was really great to be able to dialogue with not only the members that attend regularly, but uh just the the residents in the room.

There was a lot of really good points brought up.

Um I want to give a shout out of uh to Martin.

Uh Martin did a fantastic job.

Jeddah was there as well.

The mayor was there and offered some insight.

Kim was there and offered uh did a fantastic job keeping the conversation moved forward.

Uh but but generally speaking, it just was and Sarah, yes, sir.

Put Sarah put it all together.

I had I actually had asked for that, and so it was really great to just work with that group of residents.

I wanted to pass that on to the to the council that um there was a lot of fantastic questions, honestly.

It was really good dialogue.

Um I I left the meeting with a general sense of optimism.

There's a long way to go.

Uh, a lot more questions that are going to need to be answered for our residents.

But I felt like, and you know, Martin and Jeddah, if you're listening, I I would just say don't hesitate to let the body know.

Like if any of those questions need to come up and and we spend a little council time talking about them.

I think I think that's appropriate.

Um, but but there I again I I had a very optimistic uh view when I left when I left the meeting the other night.

So I just wanted to report back to the council.

And then uh the other thing, um, we did attend the uh my wife and I went to the uh farmers market on Saturday.

It was really great.

The first time I've been there all year, and so it was really great to see the high level of attendance at that.

Simultaneously, the Heritage Festival was taking place that I couldn't get to uh that day.

And so um I just I just there was a lot of really great stuff happening over the weekend.

I'm sure those of you that were there will make additional input there, but uh apologize that I couldn't make that.

I would have loved to have uh um uh weighed in on the the car show again.

I thought was my favorite part last year, and so uh, but yeah, a lot of really cool stuff happening.

Um, but I just wanted to express my appreciation on the the Sandy ambassadors meeting that took place.

So thank you for that, Martin.

You did awesome.

Thank you, Mr.

Robinson, Mr.

Meekham.

Thank you.

Uh very big thank you for those involved in the Heritage Festival and Horse Parade.

That was as always fantastic.

Uh Dan, especially his team putting that together as well as the events.

Um Katie did a fantastic job.

Uh the uh horses were a lot of fun as always, and that petting zoo was packed, I think the whole time.

So I was a little afraid of the llama was gonna spit my eye, so I just kind of steered around there.

But uh, it was just a fantastic event.

And that that uh the car show just keeps getting bigger.

Um so it was uh you really missed out on it.

It was really hard to sip through all of those entries, and it was a lot of fun.

So thank you everyone for putting that on.

Thank you, Mr.

Mika, Ms.

Straub.

I'd say diddle with the Heritage Festival and all those festivities.

Uh you know, Katie does an outstanding job with that.

And all of not all, but many of the uh the sponsored you know activities that we do happen right in this short like four-month period.

So really works hard with that.

Um, it was a great showing, excellent weather, you know, the the cars just keep growing, you know, getting them there.

Uh had a semi this time, you know, a lot.

Um, the uh the petting zoo, fabulous.

You know, that's that was continuous.

Um, you know, then having uh the the pony rides and you know horses that were there, it really brought a lot of uh community members out.

There were people that had said that they hadn't been there before, um, but just slipped a few blocks away.

And so getting out and uh you know, bringing those community members down, um, you know, it was uh it was excellent.

So you know, looking forward to it again next year, you know, with us judging the car show.

I think it took us about an hour this time.

You know, last year is probably around 40, 45 minutes, so next year we may need a lot longer of time.

But yep, it was outstanding.

Thank you, Councilmember De Kaiser.

Thank you, madam chair.

Uh some of us attended the Utah Mammoth ribbon cutting, uh, which was awesome.

It was so so cool to have that be in our community and from having traveled to another facility and seeing the potential for what we have here in Sandy with the state-of-the-art facility to the uh programs that are coming online already for our the students in our community.

It was really really really cool, and I was uh very very excited about it.

Um the only other thing is the Utah Foundation has released their research agenda for 2026.

Um if you're not aware, they're a fantastic organization.

All of their research is uh publicly available, and I've encouraged my colleagues to check out some of the research to learn how to be more uh connected to constituents, for example.

So next year they're going to be focused on Utah's energy future, personal income growth, and micromobility safety, uh, which will have big impacts for us in Sandy.

Also uh remaining topics, depending on funding, uh they'll investigate COVID learning loss, water conservation tactics, labor force participation, small homes, small lots, and education.

And uh it would be neat if there was a way that we as a city could incentivize the small homes, small lots with what we've been doing in the housing we uh workshop.

You'll recall that Sean Teagan uh presented to us in that, and I believe um has uh is doing a presentation um at ULCT with someone from our staff on how Sandy's general plan is leading the way for elderly adults aging in place.

So that is the research at the Utah Foundation for next year, and that is all thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Sharky.

Thank you.

Aside from the things that have already been discussed, had a convention facilities advisory board meeting.

Um the official date that the SALT Palace will undergo demolition is February 15th of 2027.

Uh halls one through three at the Salt Palace will continue to be open and used during the construction period.

Halls four and five are the ones that'll be demolished and turned over to SCG for their property to be developed.

We're trying our hardest now to rebook um events that had already been contract scheduled and contracted, and we do have some liability for ones that we can't rebook.

Um penalties that we'll have to pay out.

But so far, 32 of the events are under a letter of intent to rebook to a date after 2031.

And of the 36 that are contracted, um six have canceled, uh choosing instead to book at another convention center elsewhere.

So we'll have some penalties to pay for those six, but we're still um still working with them to try to find something else for them.

It was interesting.

We did talk about this whole thing with volleyball and trying to hold it at the two convention centers at both Salt Palace and the Mountain America.

One giant event at two convention centers so far away.

So we we were talking about busing and things like that, just putting the players on buses to try to get them from here to there.

It's gonna take some juggling, but we're hopeful that we can make it work out.

Um I think that might be it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Houseman.

There we go.

Sorry, I was muted.

Um I'm trying to pull up a picture, and um, so that I can be that I'm on Zoom, I can share my screen.

Is that correct?

Because I want to share a picture really quickly.

You can do Madam Chair.

Are you okay with that, Madam Chair?

Yes.

It's it's um Pam Roberts is what I okay, really quickly.

Let me just this is my update.

Okay, are you seeing the picture of Pam?

Yes.

Excellent.

Uh so my update really is today is officially uh, you know, sadness.

Um, Pam's last day as general manager slash executive leader slash all things to everyone for the Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District.

Um she is stepping into retirement and has incredible plans ahead.

Um, and I introduced um uh I I shared with everyone who who is going to be um who has been appointed in her place, and he is fantastic.

I'm working with um Dustin and and Chair to bring um them together, Evan and Pam, to come to a future meeting so that all of you can meet Evan and also we can offer some some appreciation to Pam.

But I have to share this picture because she was absolutely delighted.

So for those of you who do not know, she is an avid basketball player.

She loves sports, she loves her Harley.

Um she's gonna do as many combinations as possible during her retirement.

So because of her love for sports and have having played basketball, the board put together this kind of a unique way of saying thank you.

So we created a jersey for her.

We we took tried to take, and I can't take any credit for this aside from signing the jersey, but designed a bit of a morphed logo so that it would appear more like a jersey and a mascot and all of that stuff.

And then we all signed it, and she was just absolutely delighted.

So in addition to the resolution that we passed, as well as just the kudos that were offered throughout the meeting, we presented her with this jersey, and you can you can see her reaction to that.

So I look forward to having her come so that Sandy City can also acknowledge our appreciation of her many, many years of service.

I've shared the resolution that we adopted as a as a board.

I've shared that with both Dustin and Chris, and so we'll kind of work that in as we honor and celebrate her and get to know Evan Tyrrell as well as he now assumes officially the leadership starting tomorrow.

That's all I had.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Councilmember Housman.

And we're ready for the mayor's report.

Not to report, it's been a busy couple weeks.

Uh, first, thank you, Council, for approving the One Kind Act of Day initiative.

There's so much opportunity, potential for collaboration with our community, our city groups, and volunteer groups.

I'm really excited to be officially designated as a kind of city.

Uh, congratulations to our emergency uh planning and fire staff for the community emergency management planning event that was held last week.

There was just a massive turnout, and it shows there's so much interest in connecting with our uh especially our fire department with uh Chief Larson, who's done such an outstanding job in building up resources for neighborhoods, groups, and individuals who want to be better prepared for emergencies.

Uh, there are displays and presentations and discussions on everything from ham radio operators to food uh storage and preparing go bags, uh creating fire uh defensible space.

So we are definitely going to need a bigger facility next year.

So thanks to Chief Larson on that.

Uh the Heritage Festival and Horse Parade.

Thank you, council members, for attending and supporting that with your uh support and the events budget.

Great work for the historic Sandy community.

This was our biggest attendance yet in the last four years since adding the horse parade as a kickoff to the event.

It brings a lot of new people into Historic Sandy.

And then they get to stay, see the architecture, the history, meet the people of Historic Sandy, visit the museum, of course, enjoy the music by Sandy's favorite local band, De Novo.

Shout out Tracy Cadell, woo-woo.

And uh enjoy just the beautiful beautiful park.

We've had improvements in Main Street Park over the years, improvements in Bicentennial Park.

Still hearing a lot of feedback from that.

So that's you know, summertime starts at the picnic at uh historic Sandy, and then is capped with the Heritage Festival.

My sense based on the feedback from both of those events is people are getting to know their neighbors more and more now than more than ever.

And historic Sandy is uh knitting that essential relationship bonding and those shared experiences that really identify the unique neighborhood and the history of our city.

I want to thank our historic committee, the Sandy Museum staff for sharing the history that brings everybody out for that day, and shout out to the historic committee for bringing an actual printed copy of the general plan with them to their booth.

There are a lot of people who are interested in hearing about how the general plan anticipates uh the future of their neighborhoods.

The vendors did a great job, and we added a passport card this year that kept people going going around and visiting and supporting the vendor booths, and also kept people in place.

And then finally, to our sponsors, we received a $10,000 donation from Mountain and Excuse me, Rocky Mountain Power for the Heritage Festival, and that helped pay for the a lot of the prizes and the extra swag that makes things so nice for the participants.

We also received prize donations from Smith and Edwards, Cal Ranch, IFA, RSL, and the Utah Royals.

So thank you for that generous support.

We couldn't do it without you.

But a lot of the works are of Sandy Scenes, uh Sandy views and vistas inspired by life in Sandy.

So every year it's just amazing to see what the artists create.

And this exhibit is free and open to the public.

And next week, the uh just the display will again available for viewing at the Sandy Senior Center through October 10th, and then the award winning pieces will come to City Hall for about a month after that.

The community development communications and administration is receiving an award for an outstanding general plan for a pace of progress general plan update that will be occurring on Friday by the American Association of Planners, the Utah chapter.

It's a very distinguished award, and it was awarded for its thoroughness and also for its strong community engagement and relevance to the daily life and the the daily lives of the residents we're serving.

So very proud to receive that distinction for the work that went into the general plan.

Sandy's long range planner, Jake Warner, will be on a distinguished panel that will present a workshop at 1 45 Thursday, along with Utah Foundation President Sean Teagan, about housing about housing called approaches to aging in place.

I was saying Sean Tegan, it's John Tigan.

So please, if you are able to attend that session, please come and uh listen to what Jake and the Utah Foundation president have to say about uh offering options for uh senior housing and allowing people to age in place.

And finally, uh as I like to do, I like to um save the best news to for last.

The Sandy received its official HTRZ designation by the state board.

That is a housing transit investment zone, HTRZ, and that is approval to create a redevelopment zone right here in the Sandy Central Cairns District that will allow up to 75 million dollars of tax increment to be applied to our essential infrastructure that will set the foundation for new housing, new businesses, new transportation connections in the Cairns district, realizing the vision of new affordable owner-occupied housing, all the mix of uh transit-oriented development, walkable communities, that vision that sets that is set forth in our general plan for our commercial center.

The HTRZ is a very coveted designation and unlocks a lot of public funds to support quality development that is the foundation for our city's future growth in a quality sustainable manner.

So congratulations to Economic Development, Casey Dunleby, Rob Sand, all the work that went into it, the comments from the HTRZ committee that include Senator Colomar, Senator Harper, Representative Donnegan, Representative White, representatives from the school district, GOEO, uh the development leaders around the state.

They said this was one of the best applications they've seen, the most thorough, complete, relevant to all the goals of the state and creating new housing, especially around transit.

So it's a big big win for the city, the future of our Cairns district to encourage high quality development.

We can now offer much more effective tools and uh to our development communities so that we can help them carry the load of the of building the essential infrastructure that will sustain their housing projects.

So the HTRZ approval, congratulations to economic development.

That is a uh years worth of work and planning that went into it.

Probably the biggest economic designation in our city's recent history.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

CAO reports.

I don't have anything except for uh you can schedule your flu flu shot now with the clinic, so the scope clinic, so don't delay.

Thanks.

Thank you so much.

And that brings us to item number nine, which is a council tour of Fire Station 31.

And Chief McConnegy, did you want to give some housekeeping details before we work to reconvene and adjourn?

Yes, good evening, and thanks uh for the opportunity for uh allowing us to take you over to the new station and give you a uh sneak preview.

Um I trust and I did hear from Dustin that you all have a uh hard hat and a safety vest.

If not, we have a couple that we can provide.

So what we'll do is just heading north on 255, which is current Monroe, turn at the fire station, which is 9270, and uh park in the uh parking spots they're all ready to go.

So just park in the back.

I will be there.

Um and we'll have two representatives from Big D Construction there to uh walk us through and uh see the progress.

Still a um construction scene, so it's not completely uh finished, but they have done some uh cleanup on it uh in the last day.

Um and we'll be able to walk upstairs downstairs and take a look at everything going on, the progress that they've made.

So any questions for me prior to leaving any questions?

Doesn't look like it.

Was there anything else, Dustin?

That I forgot uh no, nothing as long as we reminded everybody no shorts too, right?

Um yeah, so closed toed shoes, and I know that they um wanted to make sure everybody's wearing pants or something that we connect uh protect their legs if possible.

So that was that was just a joke, Mr.

Robinson.

It's been giving me hard.

Oh, do you have shorts on the no shorts?

I mean I was going to until you said no.

Well, I got some turnout pants if you want to wear them.

They don't fit anymore.

All right, well, thank you.

And before we leave, uh I have a motion for the council to consider.

So I move that we recess the meeting and reconvene at Fire Station 31 for a tour with adjournment to follow the conclusion of the tour.

Second.

Thank you.

Motion and a second.

Uh any discussion?

All right, we can voice vote on this one.

So all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Aye.

All right, thank you, everyone.

Good night.

Have fun, everyone.